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The Link between Innovation and Productivity in Estonia’s Service Sectors
(2011-03-01)
The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the ...
Government Intervention and Arbitrage
(2017-03)
We model and document the novel notion that direct government intervention in a market may induce violations of the law of one price (LOP) in other, arbitrage-related markets. We show that the introduction of a government ...
Exposure Assessment Approaches for Engineered Nanomaterials
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2010-11)
Products based on nanotechnology are rapidly emerging in the marketplace, sometimes with little notice to consumers of their nanotechnology pedigree. This wide variety of nanotechnology products will result (in some cases) ...
Understanding the 21st Century Research Landscape: Emerging Trends and Needs Within and Across Disciplines – Perspectives from a Business Library
(2011-11-11)
The needs of researchers in key disciplines are changing rapidly and this
has important implications for the library’s role in enhancing research productivity and
impact. This session will create a roadmap for supporting ...
OPTIMAL COMPETITIVE BALANCE IN A SEASON TICKET LEAGUE
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-05)
Theory predicts that a planner maximizing the sum of fan and owner surpluses from a league dominated by season ticket sales may prefer more, less, or the same level of competitive balance produced by a league of profit-maximizing ...
Reactions to Shocks and Monetary Policy Regimes: Inflation Targeting Versus Flexible Currency Board in Ghana, South Africa and the WAEMU
(2013-11-01)
The aim of this paper is to examine the monetary policy actions through which the central banks in the Sub-Saharan African countries have searched to eliminate the negative impacts of the shocks facing their economies. We ...
Departmental Libraries: Aligning and Positioning at the Intersection of Collections and Services
(2010-11-04)
In the past few years, we have seen many large universities pare down the number of departmental libraries on their campuses. With the proliferation of secure digital archives and a seemingly ubiquitous lack of space on ...
Banking Sector Development and Household Saving in Emerging Eastern Europe
(2015-03-01)
This article examines the impact of the banking sector development on households’ saving dynamics in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. For this purpose, we use the mean group FMOLS estimator to estimate the saving ...
Entry Costs & Increasing Trade
(2011-11-01)
Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose from 21% in 1987 to 39% in 2006. It has been suggested that similar trends in other countries may have ...